How we built a Pig House for UNDER $40 in LESS THAN one hour!
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- Опубликовано: 31 окт 2020
- Winter is coming and our pigs have outgrown their "pig palace." We needed to come up with a budget friendly fast solution for our tinkers. Our pallet pig house consists of 5 pallets, three 2x4x8 treated boards, 12 ledger lock screws, 2 sheets of 3x8 metal siding, and screws for metal siding. With four of us working on it, it took less than an hour and the total cost was under $40!
It looks great! Very well done. Nice graphics, too!
Ha! Thanks for noticing the graphics. LOL
Great video! This was really helpful and put together beautifully. I'm going to be putting together a pig shelter this week, and I will definitely take your ideas. Thanks!
I’m glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for this video. We are soon to be newbie pig owns. This is the exact type of pig house I want to build.
Glad it was helpful!
That'll work Missouri, but not if that'll work in NY. I'm building a pallet hog shack as well. I'm gonna put osb on the inside and T-111 on the outside though. And with a pallet floor as well. This is my first raising pigs, so I hope I'm not going over board.
Good luck!
So far what I've built is working good. But time will tell.... @@LorellaPlanBeeOrchardandFarm
Great video! Thank you for sharing!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
We used 12 ledger lock screws,
3 - 2”x4”x8’ treated, 2 pieces mix-n-match metal 8’ length, and assorted metal roofing screws. This project was quick and easy.
Dad was always right! LOL
Haha
Thank you for posting this as it gave me the idea to build my own pig shelter out of pallets. Total cost…$0
That’s awesome!
How long did it last b4 they pushed out the bottom?
A few years. It’s actually still standing, it does need some tightening up though. It’s probably made it this long because we don’t over winter our pigs. We buy piglets in Spring and butcher in fall. (At about 250#) This wouldn’t be a good solution for a year round operation with full grown hogs.
Pigs will tear that up in no time
It survived about 3 years till a big one knocked one pallet loose. We were able to reattach it fairly easily. :)
@@LorellaPlanBeeOrchardandFarm ....your pigs must be a lot different than mine. The way my boar scratches his nutsack on pallets he'd knock that over within a week. Been there!
😂😂😂😂 it probably makes a difference that we don’t keep breeders. We buy feeder hogs at around 8 weeks in spring and butcher at about 250 pounds. (Hopefully by late fall, so we don’t have to over winter them.) So ours don’’t reach their full size. I probably should have gone into that in the video but didn’t think of it.
What do we do when there is no more pallet food for our animails.
If you can’t access pellets, you would have to grow food for your animals. It would be a good idea to research how to make a balanced diet which will meet the nutritional needs of your animals.
Lorella do not show on U Tube your using those blue pallets. Paint them first. Reason - They are owned by the Chep Corp and are under lease to whom ever uses them. They must be returned to Chep. You are supposed to call them and they will come and pick them up. The Chep Corp could sue you for not returning their property and you would probably be charged a rental fee and you would lose the pallets as well. Plus all of the court work as well.
God Bless Joe Scott
Really? I had no idea. There’s a huge stack of them just sitting at our church by the dumpster. I wonder if they know you’re supposed to return them? I’m assuming something was shipped to the church on them. Thanks for the info!
im sure they will sue her for 10 pallets lol
@@backwoodshomestead I have seen the Chep Corporation take an old man to court because he was collecting them up to burn in his fireplace. The Chep Corporation is world wide and own millions of pallets. Every regional manager is responsible for the pallets in his area.
Joe Scott
@@joescott3393 ...silly guy..lol 😆